Broken Integrity – Khat-e Mahi, Khat-e Paikan, and Khat-e Munfarid: Design Experiments in Non-cursive Fonts for Urdu, Persian and Arabic Scripts
history of Nastaliq and its inventor, the fourteenth century calligrapher Mir Ali Tabrizi, I realized how, despite the long tradition of abstraction i [...]
Politics of Language, Colonisation, and Visuality
THE COMMAND OF LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF COMMAND
Johannes Fabian, in Language and Colonial Power, begins by telling us a story about Catherine the [...]
Art and Text: A Cursory Overview
In contrast to the Enlightenment, during which ideas were coalescing and crystallizing into relative clarity fuelled in part by humanist self-belief a [...]
Reimagining the Past
The recent exhibition at Koel Gallery offers a snippet of the interesting concerns that Karachi’s young artists are grappling with. As five Karachi Un [...]
Skyline at Elgiz Museum
Istanbul contains a fascinating blend of secular and religious elements. It is a modern city evolving but still carries with it its ancient historical [...]
Body and Body in the Community
An atom, as Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary states, is the smallest particle of an element that can exist either alone or in combination.
An at [...]
Mohammad Ali Talpur: Line, Language, Lacunas
by Dua Abbas Rizvi
In plays by Harold Pinter, the pause is where a lot of the action takes place. The pauses intercept and interlace the dialogue, dr [...]
In Conversation with Muhammad Zeeshan
by Shanzay Subzwari
Shanzay Subzwari: Hi Zeeshan, hope you’re well. You recently returned from your solo show in London. How was it received, and how [...]